Showing off their new truck

Review photo by Emmitt B. Feldner The first piece of fire equipment in the Elkhart Lake Firemen’s Picnic parade Sunday was the Elkhart Lake/Town of Rhine Fire Department’s new 100-foot aerial truck (above).

The new truck went into service just recently. The department purchased the used 2009 Rosenbauer 100-foot ladder truck from the Bryn Mawr Fire Co. in Bryn Mawr, Pa. The Philadelphia suburb - which has a policy of replacing its fire trucks every seven years - sold the truck, with 22,000 miles, for $450,000, roughly half the cost of what a new aerial truck would have cost the Elkhart Lake-Rhine Fire Department.